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TOO AFFECTIONATE FOR MAYOR. 8PENT MUCH FCR EVEROIDERY. Dignified Official Dislikes Being Hugged in the Dark by Bruin. When dosing time came In tlic rlty ball the oilier afternoon Mayor Charles II. French coughed lmpres nlvel.v, indicating a proper degree of tatlsfactlon with the dignified prog ret8 ol hi:) administration, closed Ills roll top desk with u latin, permitted the messenger to adjust his overcoat and present Ms hat, and then trod forth to meel his fellow townsmen, says a Concord (N. J.) dispatch to the New York Herald. Instead of going out the front door cf the city hall, however, Mayor French took a short cut that led through a dark hallway past the back entrance of a theater. While the mayor In the city hall was throwing off the shackled of official cure a 'wrestling hear In the theater was busy throwing (nT the shackles of a more material nature, and as the mayor put on his overcoat the hear shed Kb leather collar. So It came about that as the mayor entered the dark hallway at one end, the hear en tered It at (mother. The mayor has a great respect for bears, but this bear had no respect at nil for mayors. In the daikness the mayor felt a powerful detaining force laid upon his arm. "Sir," he said. In chilly tones, "If you have? business wbh me, you may call at my ofllce In the morning." "Prgr-r," was the unpleasantly harsh response. "My man" began the mayor, hut he stopped flight there, for a furry arm wrag thrown about his neck, and a rough tongue made n demonstration, which, If It was Intended for a kindly sulute, failed utterly of its purpose with the mayor. "lie' go!" commanded the mayor, but his companion showed no disposition to yield to harsh commands. The mayor bad other resources, lie struck out so savagely with his free hand, and with uch painful precision, that the bear, smitten on the nose, loosed Its bold and fell back a step. Content with this temporary victory, the mayor sped agilely back over the route he had just traversed, shouting: "Hear! Hear!" nt every jump. In cor roboration of bis alarm, the bear gal Joped along behind, bound not to be do serted by his new friend. The mayor was the first to reach an open door, through which he sped just In time to be able to close It In the face of his pursuer. The bear wag led hack Into captiv ity by the theater employes. Bast Wrapping for Butter. The use of aluminum paper with which to wrap batter la said to pre serve the sweetness of the butter for a wry long period. Only Simple Justice. Women must have their wills while they live, because they make none when they die. Proverb. Laying Up Treasure. No man lays up treasure In heaves VDtll be quits dodging taxes on earth. -Dallas News. ' Justice vs. Iniquity. It Is joy to the jnst to do judgment; trat destruction shall be to the work rs of Iniquity. Proverbs 21:15. Where the Disgrace Lies. Disgrace is not in the punishment, bat In the crime. Allied. The Greedy Caterpillar. The caterpillar each month eats food weighing 6.000 times Its own weight. at V. Copvp,cm f V y V y y y y y V y y y y y y y y y y t ? ? ? ? t V It's a Rare Pleasure t y y y y I Napolecn I. Had Cct!y Coronation Robe and Thrcr.e. To trade at a grocery store that carries a stock of all the delicacies that the world furnishes, in addition to the regular lines. We pride ourselves upon the fact that we carry as fine a line of table delicacies as the big metropolitan stores and you will find the prices lower. Our rent is lower, our taxes are lower, every ex pense is lower and your patrons are given the benefit. Our old patrons know this and are universally satisfied customers. But we can handle more business, and you are cordially invited to call and get acquainted with' our stock and our manner of doing business. We feel sure that you'll be another satisfied customer. A full line of seasonable "green stuffs." H NNICH PLATTS MOUTH, NEBRASKA. An old Parisian firm which deals In embroideries and supplied artistic needlework to the court of Louis XVI Is Ftill in possession cf the accounts of former centuries, and an inspection of these books teveals some Interest ing facts. Napoleon I. was economical as compared with the Empress Jose phine, but his bills were considerable. The embroidery on his coronation f ; robe cost 10,500 francs, and an em- broidered coat cost 3,500. This coat became too small for him after he had worn it a year, and he ordered pieces of cloth to be inserted at the seams and covered with embroidery. The bill for the first Napoleon's throne amounted to 53,970 francs. The outer drapery of' purple velvet trimmed with gold lace cost 10,200 francs. The red velvet panels were Itrewn with embroidered golden bees at five francs apiece. The Inner Jrapery of blue satin, with gold lace, was 9.C0O francs, and the gold em broidered strlnes for the inner trlm- t j ming cost S',500 francs. The eni- ' broidery on the blue velvet cushion cost 3,020 francs, and the foot cushion 1,200. In addition there were .1,050 bees embroidered on the panels of the canopy at a cost of 5,2$0 francs. Work of Bees. Three hundred billion bees made enough honey during last year to fill a train of cars long enough to reach from New York to HufTalo. At the low wholesale rate of ten cents a pound it was worth $25,000,000, and if the 700,000 bee keepers of the country had worked as industriously and skill fully as did the bees, the weight of the output would have been three times as great and the value $75,000,000. In one year the beehives sent to market a product worth nearly as much as the barley crop, three times as much as the buckwheat crop, $(,- y Y! f y ?! y ? y y y a. f t f y; y y y yi Yi a. Rats' Cold Weather Retreat. Many animals snuggle together for warmth In bitter weather as the squirrels nnd the rats. Those who go ratting In hedges and dells In the win ter know they may try a dozen freshly-used burrows without finding a rat when suddenly from a single hole the rats will come pouring out in, a stream of frenzied fur. Twenty or more rats will be together In one hole. They are clever enough to block up a hole on the windward side to keep out the draught so that when a rat tole Is noted, newly stopped with soil, turnip leaves or grass, here is ulmost certain indication that rats are with lu. Like the iqulrrels they store torn) for winter and the keeper may Arid it more difficult to secure his potatoes from frost than from the attack of the most numerous of his furred foes. The Phonograph In China. American phonograph companies do R big business in Chlnn. The most famous Chinese bands nnd palace sing ers are engaged, to make records. They are brought from all parts of the em pire to the three record-making cen ters Peking, Shanghai and Hongkong. Here the apparatus for making the master records Is set up and the re cording done under the direction of an expert. A record popular in the north of China seldom is popular In the south. HANGMAN WAS ALSO SURGEON. Furniture That Pleases Until 1C0 Years Ago Executioners Were Permitted to Practice. Two or three centuries ago execu tioners not Infrequently performed surgical operations, says the Hritlsn Medical Journal. This seems to have been particularly the case In Denmark. July 24, 1579, a license was issued by Frederick II. to Anders Frelmut, exe cutioner of Copenhagen, granting him the right to set bones and treat old wounds; he was expressly forbidden to meddle with recent wounds. In 1609 It Is recorded In the municipal archives of Copenhagen Jhnt Caspar, the hangman, had received four rigs dalers for the cure of two sick children in the Infirmary. In 1638 Christian IV. summoned the executioner of Gluek stadt in Holsteln to examine the dis eased foot of the crown prince. In a letter addressed to Ole Worm, a lead ing Danish physician of the day, Henry Koster, physician in-ordinary to the king, complains bitterly of the slight thus put upon him. He says that for two whole months the hangman, "who Is as fit to treat the case as an ass Is to play the lyre," had the case in hand and the doctor was not asked his advice. . . . Again, in 1681, Christian V. gave a fee of 200 rigs dalers to the Copenhagen hangman for curing the leg of a page. In 1732. Hergen, an executioner In Norway, was authorized by royal decree to practice surgery. BURIAL VAULTS OF CEMENT. y Y y y y y y y y y y y y y y t t Old Winter with his reign of ice ami snow will soon be gone. Those chilly blasts will be a thins of the past. Spring with its new demands will soon be here, and you will need some new furniture. Our line is re plete with up-to-date, designs and patterns, which ore sure to please, and at prices, which are sure to appeal to the prudent buyer. See our display, wc are glad to show the goods and quote you prices. BSS399BS3BSE STREIGHT & STREICHT y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y Method cf Entombing the Dead Which Will Resist Decay. The manufacture of concrete burial vaults Is becoming quite a large indtis ii y in various western states, says Cement Age, New York. At Joptin. .Mo., there has been organized a com pany which operates a large plant. In the manufacture of concrete burial vaults a full body of steel re-enforcement is set up within a solid mold at an exact center of the cement which strengthens the vault at every point. Steel thus protected Is everlasting. It cannot rust and collapse with time, as such vaults must which are made en tirely of steel. The vault Is made ab solutely waterproof by the addition of a waterproof compound which is In itially mixed with the cement. The vaults remain In the molds for three to five days until thoroughly si t, arter which they are allowed to sea en about thirty days. A trip to the ce.ne tery shows the vault lowered in the grave, followed by the lowering of the casket and the putting mi cf the va.i!' lid, which snugly fits upon the vault. A mixture of pure cement and water proofing Is then poured into the space bctwien the vault and the lid, makitr the vault and lid practically one solid piece. At Lawrence, Kan., there Is another company engtited in the same line o! ork. This concern has been con ducting some interesting tests of (heir Kven up to the early years of the! cement vaults. In one Instance tht nineteenth century this extraordinary vault was Immersed in a tank of watei association of surgery with the last i to demonstrate that it cmHd withst:.!ir! penalty of the law continued. Erik j any amount of pressure. The vault. Peterson, who was appointed public' which Is made entirely of cement, is executioner at Trondhjem in 1796, ' constructed in two j a:ts. Instsd o served as surgeon to an infantry regi- fitting the cover on the top of the inent In the war with Sweden, nnd re- vault and then sealing it, the vault fits tired In 1SH with the rank of surgeon- dow n over a cement slab. Win u the major. Frederick I. of Prussia chose1 vault Is lowered over the casket. It is. The Forgotten Dramatist. Is It not strange, remembering th "boom" that followed his introduction to English audiences, that Ibsen al ready is so entirely "laid on the i shelf?" How Is It that Ibsen lovers and the "curious" cannot, In the whole year round, see a cycle of his plays j performed in London? Era. 000,000 greater than the rye crop, and nearly $9,000,000 greater than the rice crop. All the the rice and buckwheat grown on an aggregated area of 2,126 1-3 square miles did not rench to the value of the honey by $151,259. To appreciate these results, one must necessarily strive also to appre ciate the number of Insects at work. That is rather difficult, for 300,000,000, 000 stretches a long way beyond intel ligent human comprehension. The human mind doesn't work well In any thing mathematically greater than thoiifands. Where Panama Hate Are Made. Panama hats are made in Columbia, Peru, and Ecuador, but never In Pana ma. The value of a Panama hat la chiefly the cost of the labor expended In making It, for the value of the raw mater'al never exceeds 25 cents, and averages less than 13 cents. Secretive British Diplomacy. The secrecy of diplomacy is carried to much greater lengths In England 'han in most European countries. Not only are statements in parliament few er, but they are much less frank than they are In (lei tunny or In France. Manchester Guardian. Small Scale Love. Dr. Tierce Underbill, whose book on divorce nnd marriage Is to appear next month !n Indianapolis, delivered a lec ture on divorce recently in a fashion able Indianapolis church. Extravagance," be began, "is one of the big causes of divorce. My cons in. a bank clerk, married a pretty girl nnd took her home to a nice little flat. P.nt she frowned and bit her lip. "'Oh, Jack,' she said, 'I can't live In a tiny flat like this!" "'You don't love me when you say that, darling,' said my cousin. " 'Oh, yes I do, but not on such s small scale.' " ! his favorite hangman, Coblenz, to be . ! his physiclan-ln-ordinary. It might bo j suspected that this peculiar eoniliina-; of course, filled with air. The vault It self Is molded or made in one ulrtUht piece, open only at the bottom which tion of functions had its origin in a I tits down over a cement slab. A per- I satirical view of the art of healing; ! but in the records we have quoted we j can trace nothing of the kind. Per j haps the executioner drove a trade in i human fat and other things supposed i to possess marvelous healing proper- tics; he may thus have come to he ; credited wit ti skill In healing, though; ter can never rise in the vault. A ! ,m' association surely represents tho j piece of glass is fitted into the tup of .lowest degree to which the surgeon the casket, so that spectators can look .in cer iniien in putillc esteem and ,down into the vault and see that fectly tight space from which the air ' aunot descend or escape Is formed. The water, when riylng to a levtl with the bottom of the vault, will ba checked by air, which Is now firmly Incased by the vault on sides and top and the water on the bottom, and wa- Praiseworthy Plodders. The quiet plodder, If he Is loyal f.nd conscientious and sincere, overtakes the talkative bluffer. He Is more do pendabK because his judgment li sounder. He Is quicker bemuse he has less to undo. He proves his worth b bis work Men's Wear. Cause of Baldness. After considerable jocularity the pair turned to the pearlypatcd stranger and one said: "My friend nnd I have been discuss ing the cause of baldness, but we can't seem to agree. Would you mind tell In? us what yon regard as the real cause of baldness?" The stranger wheeled about, eyed his questioners fiercely and snorted: "Hralns!" 4 social position. For Hot Fires Get Egenber gcr's Coal ! Sure satisfaction every time you lijrht a lire if on top of the kindling is ebony fuel from our yards. It's heat and light giving and 'slate-free when it leaves the mines, screened and cleaned agrdn here and served to you full weight and with celerity of delivery. Order any way that suits you. Both telephones. J. V. EGENBERGER Choosing a Vocation. It Is very certain that no man Is fit for everything; but It Is almost cer tain, too, that there Is scarcely any one man who Is not fit for something, which something nature plainly points out to him by giving him tendency and propensity to it. I look upon com mon sense to he to the mind what conscience is to the heart the faith ful and constant monitor of what Is right or wrong. And I am convinced that no man commits either a crime or i folly but against the manifest and sensible representations of the one or the other. Every man finds In himself, either from nature or education for they are hard to distinguish a pe. eiillar bent and disposition to some everything is as dry as it was when it was put In. WAS NOT GREATLY IMPRESSED. Visitor's Speech Dealt with Frankly by Youthful Critic. Princess Lwoff Parhighy, the Hun garian painter, was asked In Philadel phia to address a women's club on portrait painting a subject that would have much interest, for the artist has done portraits of the kaiser, the czar and others celebrltlcb. Hut she declined to deliver the ad dress. "I cannot speak impromptu," she ald, "and what is uite wearisome than a speech read from nctt? A friend of mine once spoke before particular character; and his 8t,R. elasa of whoolc-blWren on llitriiture. pllng against It Is the fruitless nnd crullers labor of Sisyphus. Let him follow and cultivate that vocation; he will succeed In it. and he considerable In 0'ie way at le.;.st; whereas. If he departs from It, he will, at bst, be In .imsiileiaHo, probably tldlculous. Lord Clnsterfleld. ! She had snenl a week writing the speech. he read it to the little ones, as she hoped, with great success. "Hut the next (lay she heard that a boy, on being inked by his mother what had happened at the school, re plied can lessly : "'Oh, nothing much, exapt a lady talked to beihelf on a piece if paur.' Headquarters Ilr Spatildiwfs Athletic Guuh, Base Mils, Hats. G lores, Mitts, JA.vw, etc., this season at Hcrold Book & Slationcry Store Buy Spaulding's Base Ball Goods. There is none none "just as good." Beware of the "just as good" dealer who makes "appear ance" first and "quality" secondary, and of fers the customer the "just as good" article when Spauldings are asked for. y y y f y y y y f y y y y t y y y y y f y y y V f y y V f y y V f f y Full Line of Fishing Tackle. Frtsh shipment of Red Band Brand Candies just received from New York. See window display of these 20 cent candies which we are selling at 12 cents a pound. Read all the latest copyright $1.50 books for 10 and 15 cents. New arrivals, "The' Round Up," "Serventin ihelloueo." "Lewis' Rand " "The Man in Lower 12," "The Bronze Bell', "The Yoke," "The Music Master," "54-40 or Fight," "Red Mouse," "The Missioner." Be sides about 200 other books of recent popular fiction for rent at 10 and 15 cents a week. t y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y Herold Book & Stationery Store One Doer West of Fangor's. t y y y A i